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The key point, as Epicurus' disciple Lucretius wrote in verses of unrivalled beauty, was to abandon the anxious and doomed attempt to build higher and ...

Few of the birds that Aemon had sent off had returned as yet. One reached Stannis, though. One found Dragonstone, and a king who still ...

I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is not religious, who ...

When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

If you suffer [death] in the way of God, it will be your profit in this world, and your reward in the next.

Death, child. It's beckoning us both, my brother and I.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists ... an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

I had never before noticed that rain contained every color within itself, green as the fields, blue as heaven, white as a lamb, yellow as ...

The promise of a dreamer's future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than ...

I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.

The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get ...

I designed my whole image. That was all me. I just bought some regular clothes, threw a medallion around my neck, and that was it. ...

I don't know where I am going, but I am on my way.

Fireworks: we shoot them off gaily while our dogs hide under the bed. Philosophers are dogs!

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the ...

Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;And that is why their lovers are afraidTo tell them a plain ...

Why you'll never see a woman with a bomb in her shoe: we have too much respect for shoes.

I think my mom just filled me with confidence. I just thought I was the best at everything. Like any mother really.

A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.

If appearance is only a trick of the nerves, and apparition is only a lesser trick of the nerves, a less perfect illusion, then this ...

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high ...

On a good day her breath could drop a bull at a hundred paces. This was definitely not one of her good days. She was ...

You have to have courage to stand up to your critics.

Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called 'heightened interrogation'. The rules had been drawn up by ...

Don Russell took from Seth and Seth doesn't fare well when his things are taken.

I'm just really not even that huge of a UFC fan. If you go on my Instagram or Twitter, you will notice ... people that ...

My mom was paranoid about my safety.

God always gives his best to those who leave the choice with him

I've always looked old for my age.

The universe knows the perfect timing for all those things you want and will find, through the crack of least resistance, the best way to ...

They are the efforts of someone who, overarced by stars that are human handiwork, and who, shelterless in this till now undreamt of sense and ...

Man is the slave of money, but money is no man's slave

Your mind is the most fertile and largest land in the universe. You can grow anything you desire.

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds ...

There are only two types of content of any value online: conversation, and the things about which the conversation takes place. Stop making Electric Age ...

Writer's block is as a depression in the earth. Like a river that flows into this depression for a time of rest and tranquility, eventually ...

Once you've written a book, it belongs to everyone, and they are all allowed to have opinions, and the spectrum of opinions is the spectrum ...

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.

Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air

God is always working to make His children aware of a dream that remains alive beneath the rubble of every shattered dream, a new dream ...

As soon as our potential experience becomes our actual experience - as soon as we have a stake in its goodness - our brains get ...

Try me. I'm always in the mood for something else.

How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I ...

Isn't it obvious, Dad? Rafe's in love, Rachel said in a singsong voice.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less ...

If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear.

The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.

Meaning is sometimes not what you say but how you say it.

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity.

Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it's a different breed of magic altogether. Elusive, difficult to hold on to. But not much is needed.

I do not think the patient truly meant to end her life. Her act was a cry for help.

All, all, becomes profitable. Education is of the most satisfying and available nature. I am at Smith! Which two years ago was a doubtful dream ...

Biography lends to death a new terror.

My religion is euphoria.

We are too small and our statecraft is too feeble to be seen by a spacecraft between the Earth and the Moon. From this vantage ...

There really isn't much use in getting into a pissing contest since I have to sit down to pee anyway.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each ...

For me, 'The Crystal Skull' was something I'd never done before, and I loved every minute of it. Working with Harrison Ford as well - ...

You're saying,' he said, weighing each word, 'that we should send Carrot away to be a duck among humans because Bjorn Stronginthearm is my uncle.

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.

I know no promise that He will accept a deliberate compromise.

Being unable to say No, can make you exhausted, stressed and irritated.

I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot ...

A thoroughly ridiculous form of transport, but a thoroughly beautiful one.

I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether she be a ...

The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was this: "Pay no ...

I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn't ...

Man might fear a great God, but he trusts and loves only a good God.

I wasn't an expert on feelings, but Amma's were all stirred up in cake batter, and she wasn't about to share them. She'd rather give ...

Unrequitted love amuses me

The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.

The Bible is God's sacred Word of truth.

Make Him your friend and protector and your felicity is secured both here and hereafter. And with respect to particular duties to Him, it is ...

A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.

The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as "concinnitas" or "unity-in-variety".

Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning.

The primary mode of experiencing images is non-verbal ... but once it's brought out into the light of the day, what's understood by the subconscious ...

Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual onethe gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts, ... Your affectionate uncle, ...

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as ...

When you shine stars are happy because you unburden them.

We're all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive in, it doesn't matter. What matters is when the ...

To the victors belong the spoils.

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.

Whatever it is you do in life ... do it right, do it well, do it great and the money will always follow!

I tried talking to a psychologist once. Two minutes in, I said, 'Ciao!' Never again. There's no way, no way, I'd continue! I couldn't buy ...

I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

An uninspired mind creates a lack of energy for the body, resulting in a lack of performance filled with excuses.

I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to ...

If I have pizza or Taco Bell one day, I'll have home-cooked meals the next. I try to listen to what my body craves.

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You got any experience? (Carlos)I'm former army intelligence, Special Forces, on contract to the U.S. government now for national security. That good enough for you, ...

If your minister comes to you frankly, tells you of your sin, and warns you faithfully, thank God for him. He is your best friend; ...